Global Captive Solutions
Captive Consulting. Captive Management.
Captive Insurance Services to Meet Your Business Needs
Hylant's award-winning team of captive experts helps you navigate the world of captive insurance to better define, finance and manage the risks inherent in your business.
From determining if a captive is the right solution to developing an exit strategy, we serve as your partner throughout the captive lifecycle. Hylant provides the captive support for your organization’s risk management needs.
An Award-Winning Team of Captive Advisors
Hylant's team of captive advisors has received multiple awards for their outstanding work in providing clients with captive insurance solutions. These awards highlight the team's commitment to delivering innovative and effective risk management strategies to their clients.
What Is Captive Insurance?
Put simply, a captive is a formal structure to finance self-insured risks.
At the core, captives are risk-management vehicles; licensed insurance companies owned by non-insurance organizations to finance risk. Adopted as a long-term strategy, a captive allows your organization to take advantage of a better-than-average claim history, secure traditionally difficult-to-obtain risk coverage, and explore alternative risk-financing solutions. Through a captive, your organization can strengthen its financial performance while protecting your assets.
How We Do It: The Captive Process
Feasibility Study
The feasibility study is a core component of the alternative risk strategy. We’ll evaluate exposures, coverage needs, your current program and additional factors, such as cost considerations, domicile considerations and overall structure. Together, we can decide if a captive is the right solution for you.
Related Reading: Captive Feasibility Study
Implementation
Once we know a captive is the right solution, we draft a business plan and policies, meet with the domicile regulators, select service providers and submit a formal business plan.
Related Reading: Captive Implementation
Management & Operations
We are by your side throughout the life of your captive, coordinating all service providers, board meetings and renewal processes. We liaise and ensure compliance with the domicile regulators and oversee your captive's ongoing financial, underwriting and corporate administration. If needed, we coordinate the eventual exit of a captive as well.
Related Reading: Best Practices for Effective Captive Management
Steps in the Captive Process
Hylant's Global Captive Solutions team evaluates your exposures, coverage needs, cash flow requirements and current program to determine the potential applicability of a captive solution.
We advise you on the viability of various alternative risk programs and any structuring, financing, management and regulatory requirements they would entail.
We custom design a program that ensures you have the most cost-effective coverage for your needs. We will review the most critical and advantageous onshore or offshore domicile for you if a captive is your best option.
We offer a wide range of implementation services for alternative risk programs. As the captive manager, our implementation services include selecting and coordinating all service providers needed for operations, drafting policies, developing and submitting the business plan, meeting the domicile regulators and facilitating the incorporation of the insurance company.
From coordinating service providers to liaising with domicile regulators and handling the administration of the financial, underwriting and corporate aspects of your captive, we address the day-to-day elements of captive operations so you can focus on your business.
Once you’re ready to withdraw from a captive, we will ensure a painless process. If a decision is made to close a captive, several techniques can be used to achieve this goal, including commutations, novations, selling of the captive and reinsurance.
What Our Clients Are Saying
Hylant Global Captive Solutions Awards and Recognition
2025
Risk & Insurance | Captive Power Broker – Sarah Williams
Captive International | FORTY Under 40 - Caroline Erdman
2024
Captive International
Influential Women in Captive Insurance - Anne Marie Towle
FORTY Under 40 – Monica Birchmore and Claire Richardson
U.S. Captive Awards - Feasibility Study Firm: Highly Commended
U.S. Captive Awards - Captive Consultancy Firm: Highly Commended
U.S. Captive Awards - Captive Consultant - Individual: Highly Commended – Anne Marie Towle
Captive Review
Power 50 – Anne Marie Towle
Ones to Watch - Claire Richardson
Outstanding Achievement Award - Anne Marie Towle
Business Insurance | Top 10 - Captive Managers and Captive Domiciles Rankings
Risk & Insurance | Captive Power Broker – Anne Marie Towle
2023
Captive Review
U.S. Captive Awards | NextGen Initiative
U.S. Captive Awards | Emerging Talent – Claire Richardson
Power 50 – Anne Marie Towle
Insurance Business | Elite Women 2023 – Anne Marie Towle
Captive International | FORTY Under 40 – Alex Gedge
Risk & Insurance | Captive Power Broker – Anne Marie Towle
2022
Captive Review
Ones to Watch – Dawn Dinardo
Power 50 – Anne Marie Towle
U.S. Captive Awards | Captive Manager of the Year
U.S. Captive Awards | Captive Collaboration Project
Captive International
Captive Manager: Highly Commended
Captive Manager Individual: Highly Commended - Dawn Dinardo
Feasibility Study Firm: Highly Commended
Risk & Insurance | Captive Power Broker – Anne Marie Towle
2021
Captive Review
Power 50 – Anne Marie Towle
U.S. Captive Awards | Captive Professional of the Year – Anne Marie Towle
Risk & Insurance
Captive Professional of the Year – Anne Marie Towle
Captive Power Broker – Anne Marie Towle
2020
Captive Review
Power 50 – Anne Marie Towle
Ones to Watch – Alex Gedge
Risk & Insurance | Captive Power Broker – Anne Marie Towle
2019
Captive Review
Power 50 – Anne Marie Towle
Ones to Watch – Alex Gedge
Business Insurance | Women to Watch – Anne Marie Towle
Risk & Insurance | Captive Power Broker – Anne Marie Towle
Leadership
Anne Marie Towle
CEO, Global Risk Mgmt & Captive Solutions
Anne Marie Towle leads Hylant's Global Captive Solutions team. She joined Hylant in 2019 and has over three decades of experience in the industry.
Anne Marie manages captive projects through feasibility and implementation, developing unique customized structures tailored to each client’s needs. She has been instrumental in arranging fronting and reinsurance programs for her captive clients. Among many associations, Anne Marie has been named Business Insurance's Women to Watch, and a Risk and Insurance "Power Broker in Captive Insurance".
Learn from Our Leaders: Hylant Captives Podcast Library
Adapting to Change: How Solvency II is Shaping the Future of Captive Insurance
IRMI Podcast | February 5, 2025
Alex Gedge discusses Solvency II amendments, what they mean for captives and how organizations can adapt.
What is Captive Insurance?
The Voices of Risk Management | May 10, 2024
Anne Marie Towle shares her experience in the insurance industry, what a captive is, and when it makes sense to take on a captive based on company or property size.
Captive-Centric Risk Management: An In-Depth Conversation
IRMI Podcast | February 19, 2024
This episode highlights the pivotal role that captives play in strategic decision-making and underscores their growing significance in the ever-evolving risk management landscape.
Hylant’s European Captive Strategy
Global Captive Podcast | May 15, 2023
Anne Marie Towle and Alex Gedge outline Hylant’s observations of and expansion into the European market.
Make Your Own Captive Insurance with Anne Marie and Dan Towle
Risk & Reward Podcast Series | September 18, 2020
Captive insurance power couple Anne Marie and Dan Towle discuss student opportunities, mentorship, and why you “don’t need to be in a leadership role to be a leader.”
Trusted Advisors
Hylant's dedicated team members are ready to expertly guide and assist you in confidently addressing your needs.
